Stay with Me (Faces song)

"Stay with Me"
Single by Faces
from the album A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse
B-side "You're So Rude" (US)
"Debris" (Intl.)
Released December 1971
Format 7-inch record
Genre Boogie rock, rock and roll, glam rock, hard rock, blues rock
Length 4:37
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood
Producer(s) Faces, Glyn Johns
Faces singles chronology
"(I Know) I'm Losing You"
(1971)		 "Stay with Me"
(1971)		 "Cindy Incidentally"
(1973)

"(I Know) I'm Losing You"
(1971)		 "Stay with Me"
(1971)		 "Cindy Incidentally"
(1973)
Alternative cover
International single sleeve

"Stay with Me", written by Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, was first recorded by their band Faces for the 1971 album A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse. The song has also appeared on various Faces compilations and on albums by both songwriters. The lyrics describe a woman named Rita with "red lips, hair and fingernails" he "found... down on the floor"; the singer proposes a one-night stand on the condition that she must be gone when he wakes up.

"Stay with Me" reached number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and spent two weeks at number 10 on the Cash Box Top 100.[1] The song also reached number 6 in the UK and number 4 in Canada.[2]

Chart performance

Re-recordings

In 1993, Stewart reunited with Wood for MTV Unplugged. Their live version of the song appears on Unplugged...and Seated (1993).

Def Leppard covered the song on Yeah!. "Phil [Collen, guitarist] sang 'Stay with Me'," noted singer Joe Elliott. "It's his best Rod Stewart impression. I played the Fender Rhodes, he got to sing. There was a lot of instrument-swapping going on. Vivian [Campbell, guitarist] played some great Ronnie Wood slide guitar."[9]

Train covered the song led by singer Patrick Monahan on their 2004 album Alive at Last.

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/19720226.html
  2. ↑ "Top Singles - Volume 17, No. 3, March 04 1972". collectionscanada.gc.ca/. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  3. ↑ https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Faces&titel=Stay+With+Me&cat=s
  4. ↑ https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Faces&titel=Stay+With+Me&cat=s
  5. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Stay with Me". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
  6. ↑ https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Faces&titel=Stay+With+Me&cat=s
  7. ↑ [Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002]
  8. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 300. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
  9. ↑ Ling, Dave (July 2006). "The dirt: Joe Elliott". Classic Rock #94. p. 38.
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